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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, a leading global supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power products, won a 2016 R&D 100 Award for its high-temperature, wide-bandgap (WBG) underhood inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Plains All American to build $900M, 200K bpd pipeline from Cushing to Memphis

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The total project investment is expected to be approximately $900 million and is expected to be completed in late 2016. Valero holds an option until January 2016 to become a partner in the Diamond Pipeline and purchase a 50% interest.

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Researchers create graphene-like structure with transition metal atoms

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An international group of physicists led by the University of Arkansas has created an artificial graphene-like structure with transition metal atoms in place of carbon atoms. 2016) “Mott Electrons in an Artificial Graphenelike Crystal of Rare-Earth Nickelate” Phys Rev Lett doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.056801. and Meyers, D. and Liu, X.

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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May.

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Delek sells AltAir renewable diesel/jet business to World Energy for $72M

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In 2016, United agreed to purchase up to 15 million gallons of sustainable biofuel from AltAir Paramount over a three-year period. The refining assets consist of refineries operated in Tyler and Big Spring, Texas, El Dorado, Arkansas and Krotz Springs, Louisiana with a combined nameplate crude throughput capacity of 302,000 barrels per day.

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Zipline reaches 500,000 automated drone delivery milestone

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From Zipline’s operations in Africa delivering medical supplies to its pilot program in Arkansas delivering retail items to Walmart customers, the company has officially proven itself as a mainstay in the sector as it crosses the 500,000 delivery mark since it began deliveries in 2016.

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Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri form NexStart SMR Alliance for rapid licensing and deployment of Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor technology; targeting operation in 2022

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Currently, four AP1000 units are being built in China with the first unit expected to come online in 2013, and another four AP1000 units are being built in the United States, the first unit of which is expected to come online in 2016. Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Inc.;

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